Bad-boy poster boy for March Madness the Great State’s own

One final Texas tie to the college mayhem and naked profiteering that is the NCAA’s mammoth goliath $800M March Madness. Pep bands and mascots always available for camera close-ups.

None other than the notorious bad boy of the brackets from Bell High School, Hurst (not to be confused with Euless or Bedford).

Marshall Henderson, who never met a shot he didn’t like, the fastest Ole Miss quick shot since the famed Johnny (Reb) Neumann who operated with same M.O., having once dropped 60 points on Baylor, 63 on LSU and landing a five-year $2M contract with the outlaw ABA as the first official “hardship” case after just season in Oxford.

Neumann proved to be much more head case and infinitely less showmanship than Pistol Pete, The Sequel. And the wild Deep South sideshow was but a prelim layup line given the antics, on court and off, of his brother by another mother, one Marshall Henderson almost four decades later.

Henderson ripped and roared at Bell for more than 2,800 points balling for his father, Willie. Once went for 50. Points. In a game. A half-hundred shots always a possibility.

The end at Bell triggered the beginning of a traveling rock & roll law & disorder misadventure …

Started 30 games for former Rockets assistant Jim Boylan at Utah … investigated by the Secret Service for purchasing pot with $800 of counterfeit money … sat out a transfer season at Texas Tech … left without ever playing for the Red Raiders once Pat Knight was fired … fast-breaked to South Plains College and triggered an undefeated run to the NCJAA national championship (headed up by Pat Foster’s one-time Lamar assistant Steve Green) …

Take a sip.

Bolts for Ole Miss to make it four college stops in four years … failed a drug test last spring … served a 25-day jail stint for violating his probation (that forgery charge and all) … returned to his rip and roar game to led the SEC in scoring and Ole Miss to its first national rank since 2010 and first hoop championship in half a century … led the league in scoring, 3-point bombs, F-bombs, audacity and brazen bravado.

And knuckle-headed Twitter posting.

Take another sip. Marshall is having Coors Light. By the quart.

Somewhere William Faulkner is not exactly smiling. And Marshall Henderson is dominating another round of “pong” after dominating the crunch and clutch minutes for Ole Miss, ending with his jersey popping and tongue wagging and wanna be gangsta blaring.

The bad-boy poster boy of the 2013 brackets. Must see Friday, 11:40 a.m., against no-nonsense no-humor never-loses-in-the-first round Wisconsin.

Marshall Henderson primed for all the hoop world to see, not so much to cut down the final nets but cash an eventual check.

In his own words “make a name for myself so I can get this money. I know personally for me the last couple years I’ve seen Steph Curry and Jimmer Fredette. They got their money, that’s what I’m trying to do.”

Apparently when it comes to naked profiteering, Marshall Henderson is his own goliath with an appetite every bit has large as the NCAA pooh-bahs staging his coast-to-coast coming out party.